The Weekend

Name: The Weekend
Director: Brian Skeet
Released: 1999

Brian Skeet

1999

Synopsis

Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who had also been Lyle`s lover. Marian, who is still inconsolable after losing Tony to AIDS, is upset when Lyle brings his new boyfriend, a young artist, Robert. Meanwhile, the situation is just as tense at the Kerr`s neighbors' house, where oft-widowed, free spirit Laura Ponti gets a surprise visit from her resentful, angry daughter, Nina, and her married lover, Thierry. Matters worsen when the battling mother-daughter duo joins the Kerr household for a dinner party, where the pain-riddled diners engage in a messy emotional showdown.

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63
New York Daily News
Intelligent and holds your attention, like a mystery story unraveling.
60
Chicago Reader
Rowlands and Unger deliver sensitive performances, Shields is surprisingly good.
60
Mr. Showbiz
It's a coffee-table movie, but what saves it are a couple of performances.Rowlands puts a spin on every line reading, Harris quietly mines regret, and Shields, assured and sexy, has never been this good.
50
TV Guide Magazine
Thank God for Brooke Shields: Spitting spite with every remark she hurls at her long-suffering mother, she's a revelation.
50
New York Post
You rarely see movies as dramatically uneven as The Weekend, which has a dreadful, one-star first half - followed by an interesting, three-star conclusion.
40
Variety
Despite some memorable high points, pic plays like "Love! Valour! Compassion!" -- without the laughs.
20
The New York Times
You have to admire the effort its attractive cast expends pumping life into stilted, flowery dialogue that confuses pretentious attitudinizing with profound insight.
10
Village Voice
Bloodless, lip-biting psycho-carnage.